Fly me up to where you are...
Beyond the distant star.
I miss you. <3
~*~
I had a real brother once. He never had a name. Never had the chance to either. On a sudden alcohol binge at the beginning of the bad times, mother had a one night stand with some human man to get back at her unfaithful mate. That was when she still had a backbone. I remember mother would let me rub her tummy and I'd talk to him. Well, through her stomach anyways. She said he could hear me and I'd always believed that. Mother got pretty big too. Her stomach stuck out and none of her clothes fit anymore. Her belly button stuck out even. On my ninth birthday, just a couple weeks before my baby brother was to arrive, that man who put the baby in mother's tummy came back. Said he heard about her. He didn't realize as he walked up to our front door that he was more or less committing suicide. The man was handsome. Young twenties, blonde hair, kind smile. His eyes were a light brown and I'd instantly liked him. Until father came in the room where mother stood frozen. An argument began and father shifted. I watched as that man died and mother still just stood there, petrified. After father finished his rage on that man, he turned on mother. That was when I lost my baby brother. He jumped on her then and pounced on her stomach. I screamed then but it was too late. He would have attacked me that day too, if David hadn't of rescued me. He came running after he heard mother screaming also. Father went running off when David fought him. He was always a bit of a coward.
It was when we buried the baby, that I realized my father's intentions. He took away what mother and I had loved most at the time. But what he didn't realize is that he stole mother away from me too. He walked out himself. He even took Skylar that day. After father sent the baby on his way to who knows where, before I could even meet him, I ran to Skylar. I cried to her and told her everything. The next day that I was able to return to school and there were the rumors. Except, all of the rumors were true. Alcoholic mother. Abusive father. Stolen babies. It was all rubbed in my face. Even the teachers looked at me with pity. Then I saw her. Standing on the other side of the playground stood Skylar and her new found friends. The smug smile on her face told it all.
I didn't mind losing them; I only regretted my baby brother. I was so excited to see him. We buried him in the local cemetary with all the others who never got to see the world. Which is where I found myself when I woke up today. I looked around and realized I must have ran here in wolf form last night unknowingly. My heart cringed as I softly touched the tiny headstone.
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WerewolfAurora Brooks has never wanted anything more than to just be a regular teenaged girl. But that is far from what she actually is. Aurora is suicidal and a tad depressed. It doesn't help matters that she is a werewolf and also the first alpha female t...